Brian Johnson and Angus Young of AC/DC. Photograph: Ethan Miller/Reuters

AC/DC will headline the Download rock and heavy metal festival, organisers have announced. The veteran Australian rock band will appear for the fourth time at the event, which takes place at Donington Park in Derby from 11-13 June. They played in 1981 at the second Monsters of Rock festival, which was Download's predecessor, followed by performances in 1984 and 1991.

Download, which books only rock and metal acts and caters for the moshing masses, will increase its capacity this year, making it the biggest UK festival after Glastonbury. Helping to celebrate its 30th year will be Them Crooked Vultures, Motörhead and Megadeth, as well as Stone Temple Pilots performing their first UK show since they reunited in 2008.

Festival co-founders Maurice Jones and Paul Loasby originally created a day-long summer festival dedicated to rock and heavy metal bands in 1980, and it remains the only major British festival dedicated to hard rock. Download's promoter, Andy Copping, said this year's celebration would be a fitting tribute to Jones, who died last year.

"Download 2010 will be one for the history books. It will see the return of the world's greatest rock band to the most legendary and spiritual home of rock," he said.

"We have been pushing for this moment for many years, but for this to become reality alongside the likes of Them Crooked Vultures, Motörhead and Megadeth is the best 30th anniversary of the site we could have dreamed of."

• This article was amended on 26 January 2010. In the original the quotes in the last two paragraphers were attributed to Paul Loasby. This has been corrected.